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St. Paul's was partially destroyed in World War II, particularly its interior, which now has a modern appearance. It was quickly and symbolically rebuilt after the war; today it is used mainly for exhibitions and events.

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Archäologischer Garten Frankfurt

The Archaeological Garden contains small parts of the oldest recovered buildings: an ancient Roman settlement and the Frankfurt Royal Palace (
Kaiserpfalz Frankfurt
) from the 6th century. The garden is located between the Römerberg and the Cathedral. It was discovered after World War II when the area was heavily bombed and later partly rebuilt. The remains were preserved and are now open to the public. There are plans underway to construct a building on top of the garden but anyhow it is decided that the garden will stay open to the public.

The Eiserner Steg (Iron Bridge) is a pedestrian-only bridge across the Main that connects Römerberg and Sachsenhausen. It was built in 1868 and was the second bridge to cross the river. After World War II, when it was blown up by the
Wehrmacht
, it was quickly rebuilt in 1946. Today some 10,000 people cross the bridge on a daily basis.

The
Alte Oper
is a former
opera house
, hence the name "Old Opera". The opera house was built in 1880 by architect Richard Lucae. It was one of the major opera houses in Germany until it was heavily damaged in World War II. Until the late 1970s, it was a ruin, nicknamed "Germany's most beautiful ruin". Former Frankfurt
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Rudi Arndt called for blowing it up in the 1960s, which earned him the nickname "Dynamite-Rudi". (Later on, Arndt said he never had meant his suggestion seriously.)

Public pressure led to its refurbishment and reopening in 1981. Today, it functions as a famous concert hall, while operas are performed at the "new" Frankfurt Opera. The inscription on the
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of the Alte Oper says: "
Dem Wahren, Schönen, Guten
" ("To the true, the beautiful, the good").

Yet Brenna offered a Siegfried persuasively young and nimble, both vocally and physically. If his sound sometimes lacked the heft to quite fill the War Memorial, particularly in the lusty Forging Song at the end of Act 1, he more than compensated with the purity of his tone and the delicacy of his phrasing. There was a winning insouciance to his communion with nature in the Act 2 “Forest Murmurs” interlude (even with no forest in sight), and he mustered all his considerable musical eloquence for the enormous love duet with Brünnhilde that concludes the opera.

Perhaps most telling was the climactic Act 3 showdown with the Wanderer (the now-aged Wotan in disguise). This is by some reckonings the heart of the opera — the clash of generations in which the old must give way to the young — and it gained force through the work of both Brenna and bass-baritone Greer Grimsley.

Of all the characters who reappear over the course of the “Ring,” Wotan is the one who changes most tellingly. And Grimsley’s performance across three nights has been remarkable not only for its individual splendors but for the assurance with which he has traced that long dramatic arc.

And that in turn made Grimsley’s one-on-one interactions with the other performers especially nuanced and poignant. In Act 1, the extended exchange of riddles with Mime (tenor David Cangelosi, in a performance of brilliance and integrity) felt more fraught than usual, a probing of wisdom rather than a simple recap of prior events.

The all-seeing Erda, sung with gleaming intensity by mezzo-soprano Ronnita Miller, seemed to share in the Wanderer’s decline; their Act 3 colloquy was an uneasy reunion of long-ago lovers. And in the overweening Alberich of bass-baritone Falk Struckmann — a virtuoso display of robust, glowering malice — Grimsley had an antagonist with whom he could go toe-to-toe.

Soprano Iréne Theorin’s Brünnhilde slept patiently atop her rock until it was time to bring the opera to a close in a flood of accurately launched volleys of sound and a deeply affecting vein of emotional turmoil. Raymond Aceto was an imposing Fafner — the dragon here reimagined as a sort of biomorphic steampunk backhoe-cum-lunar-lander — and soprano Stacey Tappan warbled beautifully as the Forest Bird, whom Zambello has conceived as a “bird” in the sense used in mod ’60s London.

In the pit, conductor Donald Runnicles embodied both of the evening’s themes simultaneously, once again leading the Opera Orchestra through a vibrant performance marked by the drive of an ambitious young go-getter and the sagacity of an elder statesman. Unlike in the drama itself, those qualities found no conflict in his work.

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